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		reginald78 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? Smartphones work very hard to obfuscate that files even exist, probably to push people to use cloud services. Hard to learn how they work if you can't even see them.

genewitch 8 months ago [–]

I needed to edit a file on an iPad. It took me a long time to find a text editor that could edit local files and wasn't a paid app.

I needed to edit something for a tether, IIRC.

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